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If you've dropped in from Yachting Monthly, then take a look at the page on Prospero and EM Yachts
And may it be a happy one!
I am slowly beginning to think about next season. There was a visit to the London Boat Show earlier this month. Not a good place to buy boats (well, sailing boats. It was stuffed with power boats.). So instead I bought a new folding bike, which I hope will be a little more robust, a collapsible ladder (for getting on board when the bot's ashore), and joined the Cruising Association (CA).
The CA is expensive - over £100 a year - and I hoped it would have an active Baltic forum, but things seem rather quiet there. There is a Baltic Section meeting in February, which I shall attend.
I've also bought a new navigation program for the laptop. I had been using SeaPro with Navionics charts, but frankly I find the version I am using fairly awful, and I've no wish to spend another 3 figure sum on an upgrade, hoping it will work better. Instead I have bought a copy of PC Plotter, which on first acquaintance seems a good deal better. Time will tell.
And finally, a short video of Neuhof, where Prospero is currently ashore. It was a stormy afternoon - indeed, too windy to lift Prospero from the wtaer, and I had to wait until the morning:
Apologies for the shakiness - it really was blowing hard, despite appearances!